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Teacher wellbeing is a vital indicator of school climate. Internationally teacher attrition correlates with chronic stress, while growing evidence shows the potential of mindfulness in stress alleviation. Heuristic Inquiry into a poetry practice ‘the mindfulness of seminaria’ adopted by teachers and leaders, ECE to higher education, State and private, in NZ and the UK, evidenced wellbeing using OECD measures. Seminaria became a simple tuning-in device, like a poetry-app. to which teachers could turn for renewal when stressful feelings undermined their calm, concentration and creativity.